Originally Posted by
Spit The Dummie
Aircraft went tech due to problem with anti-ice, and with no engineering support available in Kabul.
Due to lack of trust in the procedures put in place for such events, the crew was not comfortable about leaving either the aircraft or the airport.
The company used by flydubai to provide security & assistance to its Kabul flights had left the aircraft.
Whilst they waited onboard, an armed Afghan military squad (
Afghans Assume Control of Kabul Airport) boarded the aircraft and then escorted the crew ‘under protest’, at gunpoint, off the aircraft and out of the airport.
This resulted in the crew, which consisted of one Captain (
male), 1 F/O (
female), 4 cabin Crew (
females) being abandoned, in the middle of a war zone. Then having to find their own unsecured transport, to an unsecured hotel, in the middle of the night, in Kabul.... WTF ?!!!
Spit, can you just clarify one point. When you say that the Security Company had left the aircraft, why was this?. Had the crew declined an offer of escort to the hotel?